A local digital technology business helping hospitality venues revolutionise their operating systems is generating big interest of its own after being added to the Commonwealth Bank’s venture scaling business x15ventures.

As the fifth venture to join the x15 stable, Doshii is a unique middleware cloud platform for the hospitality sector, helping thousands of venues cut through the app chaos and blitz the surge in mobile ordering brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.

Designed specifically for the hospitality industry, Doshii integrates venues’ multitude of food ordering, business management, data and customer loyalty program apps and point of sale (POS) functions into a single system.

Doshii CEO Justin O’Donnell explained that the ‘one-stop-shop’ seamlessly syncs all the information and apps required to efficiently run, oversee and grow restaurant, café and bar businesses.

“During last year’s COVID-19 restrictions there was much commentary about people having Zoom meeting overload, but ask anyone who works in hospitality and they’ll tell you that app overload is an ongoing headache,” O’Donnell said.

“Doshii allows you to access all the apps you need from your POS terminal, with real-time updating, so you always have the information you need without messing around with a mishmash of different systems.

“The feedback from our clients is Doshii reduces labour, improves efficiency and accuracy, and allows them to focus on what they’re actually good at – be it making and serving burgers or mixing cocktails – without distraction or delay.

“Customer service and satisfaction is improved, which generates return business and glowing reviews and ratings.”

x15ventures Managing Director, Toby Norton-Smith, said Doshii was an exciting digital platform with a strong business proposition backed by leading technology.

“When we launched x15ventures last year, our mission was to bring new solutions to market that empower customers as never before and Doshii allows us to do just that.

“Doshii will allow hospitality businesses to streamline and digitise multiple, cumbersome tasks that have, for many of our customers, been done manually until now,” Mr Norton-Smith said.

Mr O’Donnell said COVID-19 lockdown saw an astronomical 220%1 spike in food ordering and delivery throughout Australia, with 95% of customers paying via credit card or another form of mobile payment.

“As restrictions have eased, uptake of in-venue digital ordering and delivery continues to rise; Doshii allows businesses to harness this opportunity by allowing them to focus on what they do best – deliver great food, drink and service to all their customers,” he said.

Mr O’Donnell said being chosen by the Commonwealth Bank to be its fifth business acquisition under its venture scaling business was a huge endorsement of Doshii’s offering to the hospitality and small business industry.

“It’s great validation to the industry that we have gained the faith and financial backing of Australia’s leading bank, which sees Doshii as the market leader in this space to help streamline, digitise and improve hospitality businesses.”

For more information about Doshii, venue owners can visit doshii.io